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SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch?

I own a Slingbox Pro and I've used it around the world to watch TV and news. If this is true and Apple updates the iPhone this coming Monday I will definitely buy an iPhone as soon as the update is available.
 
I heard that the Slinplayer works fine on a Blackberry on the edge network. I have seen it on a PALM Treo using the Edge Network. I think it will be fine.

We'll see what happens this Tuesday. Will the SDK be crippled?
 
I know about 10 slingbox owners, who are not currently iphone owners, who would buy an iphone/itouch just for this. - seriously -
 
bytethese said:
Y-E-S, YES!

I've been waiting/hoping this would come true. I want a slingbox but would be more comfortable with the purchase knwing I can watch on my laptop and/or my iPhone!

Man, with all this good tech lately, I am going to be broke this year!
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Can anyone who has one give us a quick rundown as to how one installs it?

Say a person has a router and a dsl for your home network.

I assume an Ethernet cable plugs into the slingbox, but at this point do you have to open any special ports on the router for the slingbox to be "seen" on the Internet?

thanks
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I fully believe the leaked 1.1.3 is all real. What I can't understand is how it went out without a C&D. If this was to be the features shown at Macworld, this has to really upset the powers that be
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I also belive that 1.1.3 is real, but what if at macworld apple releases 1.2.

For example, with apple releasing an SDK, and working with a few who have already seen the SDK, I would think that they are doing a lot of polishing to the software. Maybe all that work and polish took it to 1.2, and 1.1.3 is old news in Apple circles.

Just an idea.
 
Man, just what I have been waiting for. I would buy a new 3/4G iPhone just for this app, even though I just bought a new crapG iPhone a few months ago. Would be great if it worked over the video out cable, even if it didn't look great. One feature I wish SlingPlayer had would be to prebuffer a whole show to your device at whatever bitrate you choose.
 
plumbingandtech said:
Can anyone who has one give us a quick rundown as to how one installs it?

Say a person has a router and a dsl for your home network.

I assume an Ethernet cable plugs into the slingbox, but at this point do you have to open any special ports on the router for the slingbox to be "seen" on the Internet?
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Yes, you plug in an ethernet but IIRC it has to be getting its IP address from the same DHCP server as the watching device if you want to use it on your LAN. For remote viewing over the Internet you need to forward a port on your wireless router but it can set that up automatically field some of them (it did on my new Airport Extreme n base station).

Then it also has an IR blaster cable to control an external device such as TiVo. Some models have multiple inputs and an internal cable tuner.
 
HiRez said:
Yes, you plug in an ethernet but IIRC it has to be getting its IP address from the same DHCP server as the watching device if you want to use it on your LAN. For remote viewing over the Internet you need to forward a port on your wireless router but it can set that up automatically field some of them (it did on my new Airport Extreme n base station).

Then it also has an IR blaster cable to control an external device such as TiVo. Some models have multiple inputs and an internal cable tuner.
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Cool. Thank you. I have a TiVo. If it can control that then slingbox with the iphone client will prob. snag another customer.
 
MacRumors said:
This rumor might have been dismissed, if not for the fact that MacRumors has also heard that SlingMedia is indeed one of the lucky developers to get an early copy of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).
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Is it not possible that this latest rumour is just built from that earlier rumour?
 
Macworld banner up

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"There is something in the air"


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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48a Safari/419.3)

fantastic news, one of my three iPhone 3rd party dream apps!
 
Project said:
Macworld banner up

"There is something in the air"
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Hmm, reference to something wireless coming perhaps? Maybe 3g iPhone? *dr00ls* wishful thinking. I'm just waiting to hear if there is any iPhone news since I cracke dmy screen. Might as well invest in a newer one than in fixing an old one. :)
 
Let me get this straight. Instead of watching television on your television, you watch it, in your house, on your iPhone. And people are excited about this. And it already exists to watch it on your computer. And people have bought that.
 
Unless you already own a slingbox, the ability to stream to iPhone wouldn't be a great selling point.

You can already stream movies to your iPhone over a LAN by permitting web sharing to the computer it's sitting on (and a few other minor steps I forget off hand). Over the internet it would be much the same except you'd use the public IP and port forwarding, I suppose.

Now, that may not be a very elegant solution but then from what I've seen, neither is Slingbox.

I believe that even though AppleTV isn't up to par yet, the concept in principle is more elegant than Slingbox. Apple is already working on Slingbox-like iterations of AppleTV that will have the ability to provide interconnectivity with more devices like DVR's and so on... and when they do release it, it'll more than likely have a better design than anything Sling Media has developed.

I'm not saying this to be a fanboy. Even looking at some of the gadgets at CES, everything has the goony ergonomics of visions of the future seen in B-movie sci-fi of decades past. I have not seen one single device that is as elegantly integrated as an iPhone or AppleTV.

But I'm glad the competition is there from Sling Media to spur Apple into action to produce a device that will put Sling Media and others to shame.
 
this just made my day...slingplayer on wifi will be amazing, and slingplayer on Edge will still be amazing because it's better than nothing! maybe they will put in a user option to only stream the audio if connected to Edge...you could still just listen to a football or baseball game if you wanted to at better streaming rates i'd imagine.
 
Mac OS X Ocelot said:
Let me get this straight. Instead of watching television on your television, you watch it, in your house, on your iPhone. And people are excited about this. And it already exists to watch it on your computer. And people have bought that.
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No, you could watch it on your iPhone, wherever you are in the world.

I guess the potential here would be for you to be able to pick up your content on your Mac/DVR at home from your iPhone wherever you may be in the world
 
This is what I've been waiting for!

The is the only app that I have really missed on the iPhone. I use a SlingBox to watch TV in my office and it would be great to be able to watch on my iPhone as well.
 
Mac OS X Ocelot said:
Let me get this straight. Instead of watching television on your television, you watch it, in your house, on your iPhone. And people are excited about this. And it already exists to watch it on your computer. And people have bought that.
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I've watched entire football games on my Blackjack sitting in a park before, well fast-forwarding through the commercials of course (it was Slinging my Tivo).
 
Daremo said:
I fully believe the leaked 1.1.3 is all real. What I can't understand is how it went out without a C&D. If this was to be the features shown at Macworld, this has to really upset the powers that be... Unless, and this is more wishful thinking then anything, that was a very early firmware revision, and it's only the minor additions. Tuesday should be a fun day.
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Wouldn't Apple start sending out taken down notices if it was a big leak on something they would show at Macworld ? Otherwise, I would guess that the leak didn't make them happy, but its not the main announcement. That would be something we don't know yet.
 
I wonder if this means that Apple will not restrict who gets the SDK and that it will not restrict the applications created and deployed to the massess.
 
bigjohn said:
I've watched entire football games on my Blackjack sitting in a park before, well fast-forwarding through the commercials of course (it was Slinging my Tivo).
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I must have baseball on the brain, because when you said park, I pictured you watching the game while in the ballpark. Then I thought, how cool, you could get instant replays slinging from home while at the game over controversial calls!
 
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